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Here's my problem, about a month ago I went and bought another graphics card, it's a Xtasy Geforce4 MX 420 w/ 64 MB of memory. Anyways, I get the card home and install the card into the PCI slot and start the computer up and nothing, My Win XP os does not even show up on the screen so I switched the cable to the port for my OEM on board intel graphics processor just so I could look into the device manager to see if my os even recognized the new card. Nothing there. I took the new card back and received a replacement, I took this card home and I get the same result!?! Here's the kicker, couple of nights later there is a sudden power outage and when the power came back on my card is working?!? So I installed the drivers for it and then the damn power goes out again and when computer reboots my card is once again a DUD, what the fuck is going on? Does anyone have any idea what the deal is? My computer is an HP Pavilion, 850 Mhz, XP os, with Geforce2 graphics card. Please help, I really want to use this card.
 
Have you tried setting the cmos or bios to use only the graphic card for you video? You have to disable onboard video. If you don't do that often you'll see it boot up when plug into the video card but when the os start you see nothing or maybe it's the other way around. I forget.

Note you need to do that while you have a monitor plugged into the onboard video port.
 
Put your old graphics card in. Go to your CMOS setup (BIOS) (usually by pressing delete at the first bootup screen), now, find the Graphics option, It is probobly set to AGP. Set it to PCI, save settings.. it will reboot. As soon as it reboots.. turn the computer off. Switch out cards. This should do it.
 
I accessed my BIOS and went to onboard video options and it only has options to allocate 512K or 1 meg to onboard video. There is no option to disable it at all.
 
I accessed my BIOS and went to onboard video options and it only has options to allocate 512K or 1 meg to onboard video. There is no option to disable it at all.:confused:
 
Try this

First make the that the graphics card is in the very top PCI slot. Right under agp if you have one. If it isn't then the computer will still continue to boot off of the ON BOARD video. Secondly if you do have a agp slot return the pci for agp. Next goto in bios setup.
with HP there bios's aren't really standardized. But anyways, make sure on board video is disabled. Also make sure the graphics boot sequence or where to boot first is set to pci/agp not agp/pci. You probably do not have that option in there anyways. For now make sure the card is seated in the slot ALL the way second make sure it is first or very top.
 
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